Metal Fabrication Industry

The main function of the Metal Fabrication Industry is to produce component metal parts that will fit in along with other parts, to form a larger machinery. In this way the Metal Fabrication Industry proves to be an essential section of the entire global metal industry as it produces minute spare parts of larger heavy machinery and equipments, which cannot be manufactured simultaneously with the manufacturing of the heavy machines.

The Processes involved in the manufacture of tools and machine parts in the Metal Fabrication Industry.

The construction of fine and minute machine parts involve several procedures which require a lot of concentration on the part of the person involved in it . They are therefore not carried out by the large scale metal industries and are in fact manufactured in the small scale Metal Fabrication Industry. The production of minute machine parts (most commonly, smaller constituents of a heavy machine) include the processes as given below :

Cutting

Molding

Finishing.

The metal sheets that are used in the Metal Fabrication Industry are at first cut into finer sections, in order to fit the size of the parts or the finished products, that are to be manufactured in the Metal Fabrication Industry. The metal sheets can be cut as per the following cutting methods :

Shearing

Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM)

Abrasive cutting

Laser cutting.

Then, these metal sheets which are already cut into requisite sizes are molded into definite shapes as well as sizes as per the requirements of the Metal Fabrication Industry. The Metal Fabrication Industry employs a number of methods to mold the cut metal sheets into definite shapes, which are as follows :

Rolling

Bending and forming

Stamping

Punching.

At the end of cutting and molding, the manufactured item is checked for rough edges which are smoothened by polishing with an abrasive.

At last the end product is either sold as an individual product or fitted with other parts to form a larger heavy machinery, and circulated for sales in the markets.

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Professor at Columbia University. Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 & the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. Author of "Freefall: America, Free Markets", "The Sinking of the World Economy", "Globalisation and its Discontents" & "Making Globalisation Work".

Nouriel Roubini, a.k.a. “Doctor Doom”, is chairman of Roubini Global Economics and professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Roubini has been consistently cited as one of the world’s top global thinkers. This year, he was voted as the most influential economist in the world by Forbes magazine.

Dr Steinbock is an internationally recognized expert of the multipolar world. He focuses on international business, international relations, investment and risk among all major advanced economies and large emerging economies. In addition to advisory activities (www.differencegroup.net), he is affiliated with India China and America Institute (USA), Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (China) and EU Center (Singapore). For more, please see http://www.differencegroup.net/. Research Director of International Business at India China and America Institute (USA) and Visiting Fellow at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (China) and the EU Center (Singapore).